Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the transport of nutrients to the deep ocean under Europa’s exterior surface. Europa, a ...

Explore this North Carolina science museum where interactive exhibits, dinosaurs, and hands-on fun make learning an adventure ...

Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking raised ...

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how and where continents break apart.

A satellite built to measure Earth’s water has started answering a different kind of question. “What’s the shape of water?” ...

Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

At the moon's north and south poles, permanently shadowed craters remain so cold that water ice and other frozen compounds can persist for billions of years. Scientists think these ancient deposits ...

Microplastics are pervasive, found everywhere on Earth, from the Sahara Desert to patches of Arctic sea ice. Now a new ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, ...